Military
Begun in the summer of 1851 across the valley from the adobe ruins of the later Fort Union Arsenal, the First Fort Union was built by unskilled soldiers using green logs, with dirt-covered roofs, and one soldier considered it more like a village than a military post. Within a year, one set of barracks had to be torn down because of decay. Nevertheless, the outpost served for ten years as a base of operations for military campaigns against Indian warriors skilled in deadly hit-and-run warfare.
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Watrous, New Mexico · United States
